The bestfinancialbooks—“Barbariansat the Gate” or “The SmartestGuys in theRoom”—have been built aroundspecificdeals or companies (the takeover ofRJRNabisco, the collapse of Enron).
No, the big enchilada for Skilling is neither Enron 's failed broadband division nor its retail energy business, as Bethany McLean reports him predicting in TheSmartestGuys in the Room, the book she co-authored with fellow Fortune reporter Peter Elkind.